Kuwaiti Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail Because Of Mohammad Tweets
A 26-year-old Kuwaiti man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for tweeting insults about the Prophet Mohammad and Saudi Arabia and Bahrain rulers.
Reuters reports that Hamad al-Naqi had pleaded innocent on all charges, claiming that his Twitter account had been hacked and he wasn’t the one who tweeted the insults.
The courts decided to punish al-Naqi harshly, however, by giving him the maximum sentence allowed for his crime.
As The Star reports, the judge submitted a written ruling that found him guilty of:
“… insulting the Prophet, the Prophet’s wife and companions, mocking Islam, provoking sectarian tensions, insulting the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and misusing his mobile phone to spread the comments.”
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